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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...synthesizers to limn scenes of romanticized domesticity. He draws inspiration from the curvaceous Beatle melodies of the late 1960s, but Into the Sun is an eclectic mix that wanders across genres, mutating into bossa nova, jazz, R. and B. and back again, echoing Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker, Stevie Wonder and Brian Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Son Shines | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...media campaign surrounding the public release of Windows 95 was accompanied by a theme song. As I recall, it was the Rolling Stones' hit song Start Me Up. For...consumers, beholden to Microsoft for software products, I wonder whether the theme song for Windows 98 shouldn't be another Rolling Stones hit--Under My Thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...wonder that so few Harvard seniors pursue careers in academia, since most of them have experienced four years of large lecture classes with sections for which no one does the reading. If it were less difficult to persuade professors to pay attention to undergraduates, then maybe the consulting firms and investment banks that invade the campus each fall would have less appeal and Harvard seniors would not have the reputation of having become more materialistic than intellectual. Until Harvard does more to foster the intellectual creativity of its own undergraduates, students need to take the time to think early...

Author: By Leila C. Kawar, | Title: The Search for Advising | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...fills the room, the time goes by with an almost Zen-like ease. His soliloquy has a soothing quality and soon our thoughts begin to wander: "I really should get going on my dissertation. If only I could find an invaluable primary source in my grandmother's attic. I wonder if my advisor loves me? For that matter, I wonder if any one really loves me?...Just when is lunch...

Author: By Daniel W. Hamilton, | Title: A Teaching-Fellow Tells All | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...Hungary. Is greater piece-of-mind for those countries worth the risk of provoking a struggling and paranoid Russia? If Cold War-like tensions do arise once again, this decision--whichever way it goes--could become one of those fateful moments that historians will one day study and wonder "How could they have been so stupid...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Summer Amusement | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

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